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    Lightspeed

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2000

    Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. In December 2025, the firm closed over $9 billion across six new funds—its largest fundraise in its 25-year history—while total assets under management exceed $40 billion. Lightspeed invests from seed through growth stages with a focus on AI, enterprise software, consumer, healthcare, and fintech, and has backed companies including Snap, Databricks, Wiz, Anthropic, and Rubrik.

    Average disclosed round size is $124.2M (across 1347 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    791

    Fund Size

    $9B

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    107

    Team

    RM

    Ravi Mhatre

    Partner & Co-Founder // US

    AF

    Aaron Frank

    Partner // US

    AT

    Alex Taussig

    Board Partner // US

    AB

    Alexa Boghosian

    Partner // US

    AS

    Alexander Schmitt

    Partner // Europe

    AY

    Amber Yang

    Partner // US

    AD

    Amish Desai

    Partner // US

    AI

    Anand Iyer

    Venture Partner // US

    AM

    Andrew Moley

    Operating Partner + CFO // US

    AS

    Angela Sibley

    Partner, Investor Relations // US

    AV

    Anoushka Vaswani

    Partner // US

    AM

    Antoine Moyroud

    Partner // Europe

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    1590 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Gardens Interactive logoGardens InteractiveSeries B$35MOct 2026
    GGardensSeries B$35MOct 2026
    Gardens Interactive logoGardens InteractiveSeed—Oct 2026
    Avarra logoAvarraSeries A$17MOct 2026
    AAlpha-9Series C$175MSep 2026
    Raindrop logoRaindropSeries A—Sep 2026
    Castelion logoCastelionSeries C$1BAug 2026
    Base Power logoBase PowerSeries D$1BAug 2026
    Whatnot logoWhatnotSeries G$545MAug 2026
    K2 Space logoK2 SpaceSeries D$500MJul 2026
    Neko Health logoNeko HealthSeries C$700MJul 2026
    Emergent logoEmergentSeries C$130MJul 2026
    Emergent One logoEmergent OneSeries C$130MJul 2026
    Helsing logoHelsingSeries E$1.8BJul 2026
    Pie logoPieSeries A$19.5MJun 2026
    Straiker logoStraikerSeries A$64MJun 2026
    SuperLiving logoSuperLivingSeries A$7MJun 2026
    Patronus AI logoPatronus AISeries B$50MJun 2026
    JJarvie AISeed$8.3MJun 2026
    SSarvamSeries B$234MJun 2026
    Beacon logoBeaconSeries C$225MJun 2026
    Ramp Network logoRamp NetworkSeries F$750MJun 2026
    Helion logoHelionSeries E$465MJun 2026
    Ramp logoRampSeries F$750MJun 2026
    Forage logoForageSeries B$40MJun 2026
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026